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Norwegian Green Party urges government to support expanding MINURSO prerogatives to include human rights monitoring

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Oslo (Norway), April 6, 2014 (SPS) – Leader of Norwegian Green Party Mrs. Hanna Marcussen has called on the Norwegian government to support the expansion of the prerogatives  of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include monitoring and reporting on human rights in Western Sahara.  
 
 She also affirmed the support of her party to the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination,   during a meeting with Representative of the Polisario Front  Dr. Limam Khalil. 
 
The meeting which took place at the headquarters of the party was an opportunity to address the serious violations of human rights in the occupied parts of Western Sahara, where Sahrawis suffer  since October 1975 systematic repression and intimidation under the Morocco occupation. (SPS)
 
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